The Revelation Explained by F. Smith

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The Revelation Explained : An Exposition, Text by Text, of the Apocalypse of St. John

The Revelation Explained

The Revelation Explained

The Revelation Explained: An Exposition, Text by Text, of the Apocalypse of St. John

The Revelation explained: A commentary on the Apocalypse of St. John

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career of centuries, when the children of God should be trodden downbeneath their feet, as it were, while they boasted themselves as beingthe true church, the anointed of heaven. These Revelations were to behanded down to succeeding generations through these very persecutors.The great whore of Babylon had her likeness taken and then committed toher for preservation. Would she not falsify them? Nearly all the earlyrecords of the church have been corrupted by the church of Rome. Forages it has been a doctrine of that institution that pious fraud wasconsistent and even commendable when practised to further the influenceof that church. Yea, she has proclaimed openly and unblushingly that ifher cause could be promoted by deception and lies they were perfectlyjustifiable; and her practise has been consistent with her teachings. Inview of the fact that God's Word was to pass through the depths of this"mystery of iniquity," it is not surprising that we find annexed to thisconcluding portion of Holy Writ the awful anathema: "If any man shalladd unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that arewritten in this book: and if any man shall take away from the words ofthe book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the bookof life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are writtenin this book."

"Christ is coming, oh, the heavenly sight! Our Beloved can't delay, For his bride is robed in snowy white, Ready for the marriage-day."

Amen. "Even so come, Lord Jesus." Then will appear the great "Alpha andOmega, the beginning and the ending." In the beginning he "created theheaven and the earth." In the end, John said, "I saw a new heaven and anew earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away;and there was no more sea." In the beginning Satan entered the domain ofGod's people to deceive and destroy. In the end he is cast out, and willdeceive the nations no more. In the beginning sickness, pain, sorrow,and wretchedness found entrance to the world. In the end "God shall wipeaway all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more sorrow, norcrying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things arepassed away." In the beginning the people of earth were placed under theiron hand of death, who has claimed his teeming millions. In the end, "Isaw the dead, small and great, stand before God.... And the sea gave upthe dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the deadwhich were in them ... and death and hell were cast into the lake offire." In the beginning was a blooming garden containing the tree ofimmortal life. In the end we find the tree of life again "in the midstof the Paradise of God." In the beginning a curse was placed upon thisearth. In the world to come "there shall be no more curse: but thethrone of God and of the Lamb shall be in it." In the beginning thefirst Adam lost his universal dominion over the earth. In the end wefind Jesus Christ, the second Adam, crowned King of kings and Lord oflords, and reigning in triumph and glory forever. In the beginning manwas barred from the tree of life and driven from the garden of Eden. Inthe end, "Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may haveright to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into thecity."